Journalist Louis Theroux spends some time with Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe and finds out what makes her tick.Journalist Louis Theroux spends some time with Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe and finds out what makes her tick.Journalist Louis Theroux spends some time with Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe and finds out what makes her tick.
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Louis Theroux: You're unusual in many respects... you're an outspoken, prominent politician, but you're also a single woman of a certain age who's expressed, um, you've said that you don't think you'll ever get married, you've said you're a virgin...
Ann Widdecombe: Uh, no, I haven't, people ask impertinent questions and they make their own deducations but I always tell people to mind their own business.
Louis Theroux: Do you? I read a quote last night that said "If anyone says I'm not a virgin, I'll sue them."
Ann Widdecombe: As I've said, and I'm not going to go any further than I've just gone, I don't regard it as anybody else's business.
Louis Theroux: Hmm. Well, I'll winkle away at that one.
Ann Widdecombe: Well, I was actually told you would not, when we had the discussion.
Louis Theroux: By Kate?
Ann Widdecombe: Yes.
Louis Theroux: Don't believe anything she says.
Ann Widdecombe: Well, I said that I wouldn't agree to the documentary it was going to be along those sorts of lines because...
Louis Theroux: OK - no, no I'll keep it...
Ann Widdecombe: Bluntly, I regard it as an impertinence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Weird World of Louis Theroux (2007)
Ann Widdecombe is maybe not the most interesting character to follow in fat David Mellor, when told of Louis task, says `no shortage of material there' in a dry tone. However Louis gives it his best shot and indeed she is unusual she's unmarried and still lives with her elderly mother. However Ann never lets her guard down for a moment and spends most of the time arguing about the `rules' of the documentary. A simple discussion between Louis and Ann's mum turns sour when Ann shows up and enforces the point that no-one else is to be interviewed without Ann present.
Louis doesn't really help by making his first question `are you a virgin' the first off-limits subject. But outside of that you feel that Ann could have at least tried to be a willing subject. During the election we see her candidates lose and you see some interesting emotions, but really the most interesting thing to come out of the hour is that Ann's PA used to manage rock bands.
Louis himself is clearly frustrated by his guarded subject, but still manages to get some wit out of it. Overall this is not one of his best and Ann acts as if someone else had forced her to do this documentary.
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- Mar 28, 2002
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- BBC Enterprises, Wood Lane, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK(Ann goes here to appear on Breakfast with Frost)
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